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Ala. prof won’t be charged in 1993 Mass. mail bomb (AP)

Published on September 30, 2010 By

BOSTON – A former professor accused of killing three colleagues in a shooting rampage in Alabama earlier this year won’t be charged in an attempted mail-bombing in Massachusetts 17 years ago. The chief federal prosecutor in Boston said the initial investigation into two pipe bombs that were mailed to a scientist in 1993 was “appropriate and thorough.” The case has never been solved. Amy Bishop was charged in February with the University of Alabama-Huntsville shootings and in June with her brother’s 1986 killing in Massachusetts.

Mass. man sues school official over bullying case (AP)

Published on September 28, 2010 By

BOSTON – A Masschusetts man claims in a lawsuit that his free speech rights were violated when he was removed from a public meeting for criticizing school officials in the case of a teenager who committed suicide after allegedly being bullied relentlessly. Luke Gelinas (guh-LEE’-nuss) filed the lawsuit Tuesday, accusing then-chairman Edward Boisselle (boy-SEHL’) of improperly ejecting him from a South Hadley school committee meeting on April 14. Gelinas was critical of school officials’ handling of the Phoebe Prince case, which has drawn international attention.

‘Birth tourism’ a tiny portion of immigrant babies (AP)

Published on September 3, 2010 By

SAN JUAN, Texas – When Ruth Garcia’s twins are born in two months, they’ll have all the rights of U.S. citizens

Police: SD teen wanted to be ‘infamous sociopath’ (AP)

Published on September 1, 2010 By rohit

SISSETON, S.D. – An 18-year-old high school student stockpiled bomb-making materials in his bedroom and wrote about wanting to blow up his school, target individuals he hated, rape women and “become the world’s most infamous sociopath,” authorities said

Education secretary Arne Duncan: headmaster of US school reform (The Christian Science Monitor)

Published on August 31, 2010 By

Chicago and Boston – Growing up in Chicago, Arne Duncan learned early that education was a stark dividing line – sometimes literally between life and death. At the South Side after-school center that his mom founded, he knew kids who’d made it all the way to fourth grade unable to read. And on the asphalt playgrounds of that rough area, he shot hoops with boys who later died in gang warfare.

Private colleges ‘act local’ with financial aid (AP)

Published on August 30, 2010 By rohit

Hoping to portray themselves as more affordable and all-around better neighbors, private colleges from Appalachia to Boston are sweetening financial aid packages for students from their own backyards. The latest and most prestigious example is Northwestern University. By targeting local students in financial need, Northwestern is seeking to boost minority enrollment, strengthen local ties and stay competitive in the college admissions race at a time when many private schools are increasing aid based on student merit instead of financial circumstances

Principal: 2 HS grads among 3 dead in Calif. crash (AP)

Published on August 11, 2010 By

BISHOP, Calif. – A California university and a high school mourned Tuesday after a fiery crash involving cross-country teams from both schools killed three people and left 16 injured near the eastern Sierra Nevada

Police: Decomposed body is missing Calif. teen (AP)

Published on July 22, 2010 By

MORENO VALLEY, Calif. – Authorities identified a decomposed body Wednesday as that of a 17-year-old girl who was likely kidnapped while walking home from school last week in Southern California.

Colo. nonprofit helps build Afghan school for deaf (AP)

Published on June 22, 2010 By rohit

DENVER – A Colorado nonprofit is partnering with an Afghan organization to build a school in Kabul for deaf children, who often face a bleak future with no communication skills or education . Denver-based Mountain2Mountain is working with the Afghan National Association for the Deaf to build the school on five acres donated by the Afghan government

AP source: Accused prof attempts suicide in jail (AP)

Published on June 19, 2010 By

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The biology professor charged with killing three Alabama university colleagues in a shooting rampage attempted suicide in jail early Friday, a person with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press. Amy Bishop, 45, survived and has been returned to a cell at the Huntsville jail after treatment at a hospital , the person said